An inmate at the Kendall County Jail, originally held on sex assault charges out of Cook County, has been charged in his second additional felony case since he was transferred to Kendall earlier this year.
Deverick Alex, 26, of the 2100 block of East 99th Street, Chicago, has been housed in Kendall County Jail since Jan. 31 through an agreement with Cook County, Deputy Nancy Velez, Kendall County sheriff’s spokeswoman, previously told the Beacon-News.
On April 3, Alex allegedly struck a wall-mounted television at the jail with a mop handle, causing about $200 in damage to the handle and television, both government property, according to a news release from the Kendall County Sheriff’s Office.
After the sheriff’s office investigated the damage, which occurred about 2:24 p.m. at the jail on the 1100 block of Cornell Lane, Bristol Township, Yorkville, Alex was charged with criminal damage to government property worth less than $500, a class 4 felony.
Additional bail for Alex was set at $25,000, adding to $500,000 from a hostage threat he was charged with in March, according to Kendall County court records. Alex, who remains at the jail, is next to appear on the Kendall County charges before Judge Timothy J. McCann at 9 a.m. April 27 at the courthouse in Yorkville.
On March 6, Alex was accused of threatening to kill a fellow inmate if authorities didn’t take him back to Cook County, where he was initially booked on sexual assault charges in 2013.
Sheriff’s deputies went to the jail at 6:43 a.m, March 6, to assist corrections deputies with a noncompliant inmate, according to a sheriff’s office news release.
During attempts to clear several inmates from a common area, Alex refused to comply, according to the sheriff’s office.
Alex is accused of forcibly detaining another inmate with a weapon, which Velez described as a hand-fashioned sharp object, and threatening to kill the other inmate if his demands were not met, according to the sheriff’s office.
Corrections deputies took Alex into custody without incident after the hostage situation, according to the news release.
The Kendall County State’s Attorney’s Office subsequently charged Alex with armed violence involving a category II weapon, a class X felony; forcible detention, a class 2 felony; aggravated unlawful restraint, a class 3 felony; possession of contraband in a penal institution, a class 4 felony; and aggravated assault, a class A misdemeanor.
Alex was booked in Cook County in August 2013 and charged with aggravated criminal sex assault involving a weapon. His bail was set at $1.5 million and he is next to appear in that case April 10 at the Criminal Courts Building in Chicago, according to Cook inmate records.
In 2013, when Alex was 22 and on parole, he was charged with aggravated kidnapping, robbery and aggravated criminal sexual assault in connection with an attack that March on a 26-year-old woman, a mother on her way to work in Evergreen Park, the baiduhai reported.
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Cook County prosecutors said Alex hid in the woman’s van as she paid for gas at a northwest Indiana station, then forced her to drive into Chicago, where he sexually assaulted and robbed her, the Tribune reported.
At the time of the alleged assault, Alex was on parole for a 2007 carjacking and armed robbery conviction for which he was sentenced to eight years in prison, the Tribune reported.
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